Mobile App
Migaku
Flash Cards Dictionary
Paid app for learning Vietnamese from YouTube, pasted text, and images with tap-to-lookup tools, AI help, and spaced repetition flashcards.
Vietnamese Learning Resources
Here you’ll find Vietnamese language learning resources. Great for beginners and intermediates who want structured practice. Not sure where to start? Try our Resource Finder.
Showing 304 resources.
Book
Children's Songs in Vietnamese & English Volume 1
Interactive bilingual sound board book with six Vietnamese and English children's songs plus pronunciation support for young kids and families.
YouTube
How to Speak with a Southern Vietnamese Accent
Free YouTube lesson on Saigon-style pronunciation with clear Southern sound changes and short example drills for accent practice.
Book
Tuttle Vietnamese-English Dictionary
Dictionary
A paperback Vietnamese to English dictionary with over 19,000 entries, plus idioms and sample sentences to help you choose the right meaning.
Anki Deck
Vietnamese Grammar
Flash Cards
Free Anki deck for learning Vietnamese grammar through tagged example sentences with audio, spaced review, and a step by step study order.
YouTube
Slow Vietnamese
Comprehensible Input
YouTube channel with slow, clear Vietnamese videos and podcasts for listening practice. Patreon adds transcripts, audio, and vocab review.
Website
Mango Languages
Course
Structured Vietnamese lessons on the web with short dialogues, native audio, grammar and culture notes, and voice comparison for speaking practice.
Website
Vietnamese Language and Culture
Course Flash Cards
Free SEAsite website with 20 spoken Vietnamese lessons, Hanoi-based pronunciation audio, quizzes, and extra culture pages for early learners.
Website
Vietnamese Immersion Guide
Course
Free website with an immersion-based Vietnamese roadmap, a 30-day beginner routine, and setup guides for Anki, Yomitan, and study resources.
Blog
More Vietnamese
Free Vietnamese learning blog with pronunciation help, study tips, and a level-based resource list for beginners through intermediate learners.
Website
Vitamese
Comprehensible Input
Website for learning Southern Vietnamese through unscripted listening podcasts, short pronunciation videos, culture articles, and beginner flashcards.
YouTube
iSpeak Vietlingo
Free YouTube lessons from a Hanoi Vietnamese school covering pronunciation, common phrases, grammar, and beginner speaking tips.
Website
Levion
Course Tutoring
Subscription website with self paced Vietnamese courses, a free level test, and optional Zoom A1 and A2 classes for beginners.
YouTube
Let's Speak Vietnamese
A YouTube channel from a Vietnamese school with free lesson videos on pronunciation, tones, and practical Vietnamese for daily life.
Book
Li’s Chinese New Year
Readers
Bilingual English Vietnamese picture book for kids about Lunar New Year, with a simple story plus zodiac facts, recipes, and activities.
Website
LangHub
Course Phrasebook
Free Vietnamese lessons with themed word and phrase lists, plus downloadable MP3, PDF, and text files for self-study by level.
Mobile App
Nemo
Flash Cards Phrasebook
Mobile app for learning useful Vietnamese words and travel phrases with native audio, offline study, and a record-and-compare pronunciation tool.
Mobile App
Mango Languages
Course
Vietnamese course app with short dialogue lessons, native audio, grammar notes, and voice comparison for guided self-study.
About the Library
The Library is the structured side of this website. Apps, textbooks, Anki and flash card decks, online courses, language schools, and dictionaries — the resources actually built to teach you Vietnamese in an organised way. Each resource has a short summary, pros and cons, and a note on who it fits best.
No resource is great at everything. Some are strong for reading and weak for listening. Some have great content trapped behind a clunky app. Some only cover one dialect well. The pros and cons on each page call these things out, so you find out before you've spent a weekend on something that wasn't going to work for you anyway.
Everything here is tagged by dialect, format, cost, and the skills it trains. The filters cut a long list down fast: pick Northern or Southern, free or paid, mobile or desktop, listening-focused or grammar-focused, and most of the noise disappears.
FAQ
The Library lists structured learning resources designed to teach you Vietnamese: apps, textbooks, courses, decks, and dictionaries. The Media section covers native input for practice, such as YouTube channels, podcasts, news sites, and dubbed shows. Most learners use both. Start with the Library to build foundations, then add Media once you can recognize basic words and want to train your ear on natural speech.
We look at whether a resource teaches Vietnamese in a useful way, whether the audio quality is acceptable, and whether it is still available and maintained. Each entry has a short review with pros and cons and a note on who it suits best. We do not include resources that are abandoned, broken, or that have not enough valueable content.
Nothing beats a good teacher. Classes — online or face-to-face — give you live feedback on pronunciation, real conversation practice, and someone who can answer the questions a textbook cannot. If classes are not an option, the next best setup is one main course or app to give you structure, a vocabulary review tool such as an Anki deck, and a dictionary you keep open while studying. Our beginner's guide walks through this in detail, with specific picks for both Northern and Southern learners.
No, the Library is a mix. Some are completely free, like Anki decks and many online dictionaries. Some are paid, like most textbooks and language schools. And some are freemium, like apps that give you a beginner course for free but charge for the full content. Use the cost filter to narrow the catalog down to free, freemium, or paid resources only.
Yes. Each resource is tagged with the dialect or dialects it covers. Use the dialect filter to see only Northern, Central or Southern resources. Some entries are dialect-neutral, like dictionaries and grammar references, because written Vietnamese is the same nationwide. If you are unsure which dialect to learn, our Northern and Southern dialect guides explain the differences and how to choose.